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By Wandering Eyes · Posted
Forest Racing's Lovcen maintained his unbeaten record with a three-quarter length win in the 2000-metre G1 Hopeful Stakes at Nakayama on Saturday. The son of World Premiere is the first horse to win the Hopeful in his second start since the race was promoted to Group 1 status in 2017. Sent off at 18-1, the dark bay was part of the early pace discussion but soon dropped back to midfield entering the first turn. The first 1000 metres was covered in 1:01.30 by T O Al Ain (Al Ain), with positions largely unchanged entering the final furlongs. Making up ground with a quarter-mile to go, Lovcen was steered from the rail to the far outside and unleashed a devastating turn of foot to win going away over the stalking Forte Angelo (Fierement). It was a half-length back to Ask Edinburgh (Leontes) in third. Favoured Anduril (Saturnalia) made up some late ground but ultimately faded away to seventh. “I was hoping that he would break well, run in good rhythm and have plenty left in the tank, which I'm happy that he did,” said rider Kohei Matsuyama. “He had shown a remarkable turn of foot in training so I knew he would have the strength to catch the leaders. Since his first win was over yielding ground, the colt has proven his versatility today so we have a lot to look forward to in his future starts.” Pedigree Notes World Premiere, winner of the 2019 G1 Kikuka Sho (Japanese St Leger) and G1 Tenno Sho Spring in 2021, has joined the ranks of top-level sires with the victory of Lovcen, his first stakes winner. The son of Deep Impact is credited with a mere 26 foals from his first crop. Ten of his progeny have made the races with a trio of winners among them, including Lovcen. The late Giant's Causeway has sired 248 stakes winners (125 group/graded). Lovcen is his 37th Group 1 scorer worldwide, with Deep Impact's G1 Poule d'Essai des Pouliches heroine Beauty Parlour bred on similar lines. The sixth foal, and fifth runner and winner out of the placed Songwriting (Giant's Causeway), the colt broke his maiden by three lengths going this trip at Kyoto in November over yielding ground. Sold for $800,000 by Niall Brennan Stables to Katsumi Yoshida at the Fasig-Tipton Florida Select 2-Year-Olds in Training Sale, Songwriting has a weanling colt by Copano Rickey and was bred back to that sire this spring. Second dam Embur's Song (Unbridled's Song) was a Champion Older Mare in Canada and a multiple graded winner there. Classic winner and three-time Grade I winner Exaggerator (Curlin) is under the third dam. Saturday, Nakayama, Japan HOPEFUL STAKES-G1, ¥135,660,000, Nakayama, 12-27, 2yo, 2000mT, 2:01.00, fm. 1–LOVCEN (JPN), 123, c, 2, by World Premiere (Jpn) 1st Dam: Songwriting, by Giant's Causeway 2nd Dam: Embur's Song, by Unbridled's Song 3rd Dam: Embur Sunshine, by Bold Ruckus 1ST BLACK-TYPE WIN. 1ST GROUP WIN. 1ST GROUP 1 WIN. O-Forest Racing; B-Northern Farm (Jpn); T-Haruki Sugiyama; J-Kohei Matsuyama; ¥71,162,000. Lifetime Record: 2-2-0-0, ¥78,662,000. 2–Forte Angelo (Jpn), 123, c, 2, Fierement (Jpn)–Lady Angela (Ire), by Dark Angel (Ire). 1ST BLACK TYPE. 1ST GROUP BLACK TYPE. 1ST GROUP 1 BLACK TYPE. O-Silk Racing; B-Northern Farm (Jpn); ¥28,332,000. 3–Ask Edinburgh (Jpn), 123, c, 2, Leontes (Jpn)–Honey Trip (Jpn), by Manhattan Café (Jpn). 1ST GROUP 1 BLACK TYPE. O-Toshihiro Hirosaki; B-Mishima Bokujo (Jpn); ¥18,166,000. Margins: 3/4, HF, 1. Odds: 18.80, 5.40, 31.90. Also Ran: Aure Ares (Jpn), Badrinath (Jpn), Olufsen (Jpn), Anduril (Jpn), Justin Vista (Jpn), T O Al Ain (Jpn), Noche Cerrada (Jpn), Matenro Zero (Jpn), Gene King (Jpn), Winners Nine (Jpn), Shonan Gulf (Jpn), Nowhere Man (Jpn), Meisho Hachiko (Jpn). Click for the JRA chart & video. The post World Premiere Colt Shocks Hopeful Stakes Field appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
He chose stud work over a modelling contract and now Harry Dutfield, the canny pinhooker, breeder and owner of Saint Ann Stud in Garboldisham, faces the TDN question master. TDN: How did you become involved in bloodstock in the first place? HD: I was introduced to the sport when I was very young by my parents, who had shares in various horses. They would occasionally take my twin brother and me racing and my interest started from there. I hated the itchy trousers, matching suit jackets and strangulating ties they made us wear and the car journeys were beyond boring but, once there, I was in my happy place. As my parents' involvement in the sport developed so too did my own and I started attending the yearling sales with my mother [the late trainer, Nerys Dutfield]. In 2000, we were attending the Goffs Autumn Yearling Sale and in Barn T Box 14 we viewed lot 341, the property of Tony Marsh, a bay filly from Danehill Dancer's first crop. We viewed the filly and as soon as we turned and walked away, I looked at my parents and said, “I absolutely love that filly, we must try and buy her, I really want to take her home.” Whether they were averse to an argument or simply intrigued by my blind faith, they bought her on my insistence for IR£2,000. My parents gave her to my twin and me instead of financing our first car as a special birthday present. We named her Lady Dominatrix. She was my first hands-on purchase in bloodstock and she turned out to be special. TDN: What's your proudest moment to date? HD: As my virgin purchase, Lady Dominatrix will always have a special place in my soul. She won four races including a Listed and Group 3 and was beaten a whisker in the G2 (now G1) Flying Five Stakes in Ireland. She took a pair of young naive twins around Europe, to Royal Ascot and raced at the top level in the Nunthorpe Stakes. When she retired to the paddocks I followed like a loyal disciple and started stud work. She is a stakes-producing broodmare and grandmother to champion European two-year-old, Campanelle. I will always be proud of her Although I only purchase three to five foals a year, I've been fortunate to pinhook Group 2 winners Kool Kompany (€8,000), Night Colours (€26,000) and Azure Blue (€19,000) and although Kool Kompany hit the crossbar in a Group 1, perhaps it is Azure Blue that has given me my finest moment to date when winning the Duke Of York Stakes. I considered her Group 1 class but niggling feet problems prevented her from lifting that hex. It is of great personal disappointment that I have yet to land a Group 1 winner. TDN: And the biggest mistake you've made in this business? HD: In 2017, I purchased a bay filly from Night Of Thunder's first crop from Grenane House Stud for €26,000. She was the most expensive foal I'd ever bought and I joint-owned her with Tommy and Paul Radley from Cork. I told them (with youthful confidence) that she'd be the “best filly they'd ever own”. But as a yearling she only just scraped above her £34,000 reserve and we sold for £38,000 to Richard Knight. Named Night Colours, she went on to win a Group 2 at two. My faith in her was validated but I somewhat rued the missed opportunity of how close we came to retaining her. The mare's next foal was dual Group 1 and Classic winner Mother Earth. Imagine her value now – it still makes my head spin! The retired Lady Dominatrix turns 27 in a few days | Harry Dutfield TDN: What was your defining memory of 2025? HD: Realising that after three quick years I have already fully outgrown my farm. I can't nurture a business by turning business away, but equally, I don't think I could afford a bigger place at the moment. Leaves me in a quandary. TDN: Tell us something people don't know about you… HD: In my late teens/early twenties, my twin brother entered us for a competition and we were offered a modelling contract for fashion brand Dsquared. I said no, but I wonder what life would be now if I'd agreed. TDN: What keeps you awake at night? HD: Worrying about horses! If I know a horse is slightly lame or a big day is coming up (such as shipping yearlings to the sales), I have this brutal habit of having very lucid dreams that the horse is nearly dead or everything goes disastrously. I will wake up pumping with sweat and fully convinced the worst has happened. TDN: Any regrets? HD: No, not really. My parents died, too young, about a decade ago and my seven siblings wouldn't have a clue what I do, so I have no one to embarrass or make proud other than myself. If you make a mistake, as long as you learn from it, then it's not something to regret. TDN: What motivates you? HD: Success both on the track and in the ring, plus other people's expectations. TDN: Give us an underrated sire to keep the right side of next year… HD: I'm afraid I can't. From the stallions about to have their first runners, no one stallion stood out enough for me to put their name forward. In previous years, Havana Grey's first crop were all over my short list and this year, Chaldean's foals were too. I tried my best to buy one but failed, so I will try to breed one instead. TDN: Your favourite sale/place and why? HD: I cut my teeth consigning at the Doncaster Premier Yearling Sale and Tattersalls October Book 3. They are like trainers' sales, where trade is real and represent a genuine guide to the industry's health. If you start here and can make a success out of it you have what it takes to succeed. Doncaster's sale ground can get quite dusty, so Tattersalls wins on preferred location. TDN: What's your go-to karaoke song? HD: Take me away from the Thoroughbred industry and my confidence deteriorates, so I've never tried karaoke, but if the gun went to my head I'd pick Florence And The Machine's Dog Days Are Over. It takes me back to working in Kentucky, belting up the freeway, ciggy in hand, with no air conditioning in a bright red Pontiac Grand Am that was older than me, had no brakes, and had to be parked facing downhill just in case it rained (the footwells would flood). She had seventies-inspired brown corduroy decor. I think the carefree, positivity of those memories attached to that song would give me the confidence to belt it out (with a little help from a pint or three). TDN: Who inspires you? HD: I consider inspiration to be the motivation to do something initiated by someone's else's actions or achievements. Therefore, I'd rather be honest and say no one has inspired me (shaking my head but laughing to myself). Not even my parents inspired me – they never came to parents' days, sports days or encouraged me into a course of action, and they even forgot to pick me up from hospital after surgery one day, so definitely not them. Admiration is quite close in that you appreciate someone's achievements but without the spark for self change/creation. So here are three people who I admire: 1. Mark Walker, my mother's former Head Lad: a stressed, knowledgeable and experienced man who made a continuous effort to impart knowledge without being asked. Everything he said back then makes sense to me now and I am a better person for working with him. 2. Mathilde Texier, sales vet. As essentially a one-woman operation, the odds of success are against her, yet she is at the top of her field, respected and admired on a global level, and that achieved (in the early years) in spite of adversity. 3.) David Hegarty: fellow consignor and pinhooker. I scan around at the foal and yearling sales, looking for people like myself who have done years of graft at the coal face and slowly climbed upwards. The occasional face emerges but doesn't stick around for long. David's does, and I know how hard it has been for me. The post In The Hot Seat: Harry Dutfield appeared first on TDN | Thoroughbred Daily News | Horse Racing News, Results and Video | Thoroughbred Breeding and Auctions. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
New Zealand-bred gelding Klabel (NZ) (Vadamos) capped a consistent run of form with a welcome return to the winners’ circle in the A$120,000 Listed Adelaide Galvanising Industries Christmas Handicap (1200m) at Morphettville on Saturday. The son of Vadamos has now had 31 starts for seven wins, 13 placings and A$586,220 in stakes. The Christmas Cup was Klabel’s first win since August 2024, but his 15 starts since then had produced six runner-up finishes, three thirds, two fourths and two fifths. Leading into Saturday, his 2025-26 preparation had been made up of a third in an 1100m Benchmark 100 at Caulfield on September 20, a third in a 1200m handicap at Cranbourne on October 10, a second behind Jigsaw (Manhattan Rain) in the Gr.2 McEwen Stakes (1200m) on Cox Plate Day at Moonee Valley on October 25, a fifth in the Listed Fisher Stakes (1200m) at Flemington on November 8, a ninth in the A$1 million Meteorite (1200m) at Cranbourne on November 22 and a last-start third in an 1100m handicap at Ballarat on December 6. The six-year-old returned to his home state of South Australia on Saturday and was right back at the peak of his powers. Klabel jumped quickly from his wide gate and sat outside the early leader Vexatious Dancer (Hualalai) before pushing forward to take command coming up to the home corner. He bounded away into a clear lead with 300m remaining, but found himself under siege when Grinzinger Prince (More Than Ready) and the favourite Watchme Win (Harry Angel) loomed on either side of him at the 100m mark. Klabel kept finding and held them both at bay, scoring a narrow but determined victory in a three-way photo finish. “I know he doesn’t find a great deal of sprint, but he can really hold his tempo to the line, so I was quite happy to put the pressure on nice and early and make them chase me,” winning jockey Jake Toeroek said. “He had the challengers on both sides but fought really hard in the last 100m. I was confident on the line, but didn’t want to be too confident. I was glad to see my number up when I got back. “He’s been a bit unlucky in Melbourne, drawing awkward alleys and the races haven’t worked out in his favour. He is a horse that needs things to go his way. “He’s never far away, he’s a very honest galloper, and it’s good for him to finally get a win on the board. “He hasn’t had many of those next to his name in recent times, but he’s always picking up a cheque. It’s great to get this win for the ownership group – Neville Morgan and his family, along with the other owners. They’ve been great supporters and I’m happy to pay them back.” Klabel is trained at Morphettville by Richard and Chantelle Jolly. “I initially thought the inside horse might have got us on the line, but watching the slow-mo, we knew we were back in the game,” Richard Jolly said. “It was a good win. He deserved to win a race. He’s been running really well in Melbourne without quite getting there. “He drew inside barriers in a couple of those Melbourne races and we rode him a bit more positively in good-speed races, which didn’t suit him. Today there was a bit of a lack of tempo in the race, and we decided to roll forward, which worked out well. “Neville Morgan owns this horse along with John Naffine and Craig Fitzgerald’s Bula Bula Syndicate. This is a great result for them and there’ll be a nice celebration tonight.” Klabel was bred by Alan Galbraith and by Vadamos is out of the Hidden Dragon mare Ardere, a winner over 1050m. Richard and Chantelle Jolly went to $120,000 to purchase Klabel as a yearling through the Rich Hill Stud draft at Karaka 2021. The father-daughter team returned to Karaka last January and bought a Satono Aladdin half-sister for $160,000. View the full article -
By Wandering Eyes · Posted
The Waikato Stud colours were to the fore at Cranbourne on Saturday when their talented homebred mare Sun Gift (NZ) (Savabeel) scored a last-gasp win in the A$130,000 Gatorade Handicap (2025m). The Benchmark 74 handicap was the fourth win of a 20-race career for Sun Gift, who has also finished second on seven occasions and has earned A$180,905. The Danny O’Brien-trained Sun Gift was second-up at Cranbourne on Saturday, having finished strongly for second over 1600m in her resuming run at Caulfield Heath on December 3. As a previous winner over distances ranging up to 2400m, the step up to a middle-distance on Saturday was expected to suit, and so it proved. Jockey Craig Williams initially settled Sun Gift in sixth along the rail, but when Bon Fete (Hellbent) pushed forward to inject some speed into the race at around the 800m mark, Sun Gift was left flat-footed and drifted back to second-last. When the field bunched up approaching the home turn, Sun Gift was boxed in on the inside and desperate for room. Williams found clear air with 200m to run and angled Sun Gift to the outside of the favourite Suntora (Toronado), who quickly strode to the lead and had all of her momentum up. Sun Gift had to quicken sharply and did exactly that, drawing up alongside Suntora and thrusting her head in front right on the finish line. “When Bon Fete faded entering the straight, it looked like I might be in a complete wedge,” Williams said. “I was able to come out and follow the favourite through, and my horse did a really good job to pick up and get her head in front at the line. She’s only second-up, so she’s in for a lovely preparation for her trainer Danny O’Brien and also for the Chitticks at Waikato Stud, who are coming into the sales season in New Zealand. “She had to have that change of gears in the straight, and that’s what she possessed. By the time she got out, she had to really lengthen and remember that the favourite wasn’t going slowly either – she was improving as well. “She got her head in front at the right time, and she was really strong through the line. “I was pleased with her first-up run at Caulfield Heath, and then Danny’s given her plenty of time and found today’s race for her. Having only 54kg on her back helped, and she gave me a great ride and got the win.” Sun Gift is by Savabeel out of the Pour Moi mare Sunniva (NZ), an unraced half-sister to Gr.1 Victoria Derby (2500m) and Melbourne Cup (3200m) winner Efficient (NZ) (Zabeel). Sunniva is also a three-quarter-sister to the Group Two winner and sire Guillotine, while half-sister Cold Shoulder (NZ) is the dam of Group One winner On The Rocks (NZ) (Alamosa). Sunniva is the dam of three winners from three foals to race. Her first foal Gravity (Shamexpress) was a winner, while Sun Gift’s younger full-brother Morthan Efficent (NZ) (Savabeel) has scored two wins in a 12-start career in Victoria. Sunniva produced another Savabeel colt in 2022. She was served by the champion stallion’s son Noverre this season. View the full article -
Numbers for Riverton not that great for some races, be a good day for the home trained runners one or 2 local trainers not going at all, yet we read about the lack of meetings in Canterbury for a few days, yet some in the South have meetings and don't go probably for any number of reasons, Robert Dennis had a 3 week gap after Winton, missed Centrali think, sometimes you put the days on but you never know what you get.
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